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I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

submitted 129 days ago • 6313 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 130 days ago • 294 comments

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias, that in plain language says,sometimes people are too stupid to know how stupid they are. Trying to think of an example and Trump keeps popping into my mind 🧪

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 129 days ago • 2069 comments

Here we go: The Acting Solicitor General has asked #SCOTUS to immediately freeze (and vacate) the district court order that had temporarily reinstated Hampton Dellinger atop DOJ’s Office of Special Counsel: utexas.box.com/s/h0m91y7nes... I’ll have much more on this in tomorrow’s “One First.”

submitted 129 days ago • 96 comments

Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over! Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂

submitted 153 days ago • 73 comments

A century later, it's Germany sounding the alarm about a dark malevolence spreading across the world. The harbinger of darkness this time...is us. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 130 days ago • 151 comments

Pure corruption.

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Our colleagues at the @AP are the best in the business, total professionals and straight as they come. Since I started covering the White House in 1996, no president has punished a mainstay of the press pool to enforce his personal choice of what words they use in their stories.

submitted 130 days ago • 128 comments

Ukraine’s president has warned the days of guaranteed US support for Europe are over, as he urged the continent to band together to create a united army and foreign policy.

submitted 130 days ago • 177 comments

Hilarious NYT headline: REPUBLICANS LOVE TRUMP’S SPENDING CUTS. JUST NOT IN THEIR STATES.

submitted 130 days ago • 571 comments

Spot on.

submitted 130 days ago • 1527 comments

If they’re willing to cut funding for the fight against cancer, why would anyone believe their promises about keeping Title I funding or IDEA programs for special needs kids?

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Chancellor Scholz after Vance at Dachau: "A profession of 'never again!' is therefore incompatible with support for the AfD...Never again fascism! Never again racism! Never again war of aggression!" Starke Worte eines Machtlosen www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

submitted 130 days ago • 16 comments

Democracy dies in savviness.

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Elon Musk is serving as Trump’s hatchetman, slashing government spending on everything from dying babies in warzones to Americans displaced by natural disasters. Meanwhile, Musk himself is a “walking conflict of interest,” whose companies are raking in more federal dollars.

submitted 130 days ago • 97 comments

The free world still has strong leaders. Nordic-Baltic friends, Ukraine counts on you.

submitted 130 days ago • 42 comments

Our parks are in chaos. We’ve seen firsthand how Trump’s hiring freeze, the rescinding of hundreds of job offers, and the layoff of 5% of NPS staff have left us overwhelmed and short-handed.

submitted 130 days ago • 215 comments

I think it's both depressing and telling how many Americans (including many members of the elite media) view "masculinity" basically in terms of being an abuser and are excited and thrilled to sign up themselves and others for more abuse.

submitted 132 days ago • 70 comments

Trump’s 51st-State Plan Would Be a Literal Death Sentence for Canadians Canadians have a universal healthcare system and significantly longer life expectancy than Americans.

submitted 130 days ago • 229 comments

Let me be very clear: The last person I want to hear talking about the risks of SSRIs is a sociopathic conman who spent much of his life self-medicating his own mental health issues -- including treating his ADHD with heroin! -- and who now wants the rest of us to validate those choices.

submitted 130 days ago • 48 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 130 days ago • 1873 comments

“Despite the demands of Trump, Leavitt, and Big Brother, the AP is not changing their style to suit the whims of a would-be tinpot dictator. And by defying Trump, the AP has created a rallying point for other organizations and individuals to find their spines and defy him as well.”

submitted 131 days ago • 304 comments

“But the AP refused to knuckle under. The organization’s stand provides a model for resistance to tyranny, and a model for free speech, that much of American media needs right now.” @nberlat.bsky.social @atrupar.com open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

submitted 131 days ago • 33 comments

"This is much worse because this is going to the functioning of the U.S. attorney's offices nationwide."

submitted 130 days ago • 52 comments

I fear they’re coming for ALL school vaccine mandates next. Including measles, mumps and rubella.

submitted 130 days ago • 2332 comments

Zelensky is only half-right. The American people are still committed to our alliance with Europe, and specifically Ukraine. The US -- like Europe -- is under attack from Russia and has been partially captured by Russian collaborators. But we will defeat them.

submitted 130 days ago • 113 comments

The usual dance of “moderate” Republicans complaining about everything they just voted for when it affects them. Rinse, repeat.

submitted 130 days ago • 1515 comments

If RFK wants to meaningfully decrease rates of depression, he can support paid family and maternity leave, equal pay for women, universal healthcare, and fully funded public schools. Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.

submitted 130 days ago • 77 comments

Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

submitted 130 days ago • 504 comments

People who write about "this is the wrong fight to pick," never ever actually fight for anything. Feel free to ignore them.

submitted 130 days ago • 223 comments

“We’ve given up everything to serve our country overseas, and we’re being maligned by the richest asshole in the world.” We spoke to 12 USAID workers about how Elon Musk and Trump have shattered the foundations of the entire humanitarian aid industry.

submitted 130 days ago • 32 comments

Trump — or Vance — can make one phone call and set any investigation they wish in motion, or get one quashed. In other words, they are the law.

submitted 130 days ago • 81 comments

A statement from Robert B. Fiske Jr., John S. Martin Jr., Mary Jo White, James B. Comey, David N. Kelley, Geoffrey S. Berman, and Audrey Strauss:

submitted 130 days ago • 197 comments

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

submitted 130 days ago • 2344 comments

I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)

submitted 130 days ago • 75 comments

This is how white supremacy works. The parade is to honor the birthday of an historic Marylander. What if the parade were for Samuel Chase or Francis Scott Key? It would be fine. Douglass is defined by the feds only by his Blackness. But they’ll deny it.

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French President Emmanuel Macron has invited European leaders to an emergency summit in Paris on Monday. The meeting aims to address challenges arising from recent discussions between Trump and Putin, and reflects the need for Europe to respond collectively to these developments.

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The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years. State health officials said Friday in a news release that those who are infected are either unvaccinated or their vaccination status is unknown.

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Hagan Scotten isn't some squishy liberal prosecutor. He's a Federalist Society member. He clerked for Brett Kavanaugh on the DC Court of Appeals. And... He prosecuted Igor Fruman before working on the bribery case against New York Mayor Eric Adams. 1/2

submitted 130 days ago • 5 comments

A key federal agency overseeing 15 million acres of public lands in California has halted some critical fire prevention work because of the massive freeze in government funding directed by Donald Trump.

submitted 130 days ago • 268 comments

@gtconway.bsky.social: "We're seeing a Justice Department including the FBI that is on the edge of a full scale revolt because they're being asked to do things that are just contrary to what they are obligations to the nation are and their ethical obligations as lawyers."

submitted 130 days ago • 22 comments

Dr John Gartner and Dr Harry Segal cover the approaching threat to the rule of law with the help of their guest, Barbara McQuade, law professor at the University of Michigan and frequent legal commentator on MSNBC.

submitted 130 days ago • 28 comments